Fegens is one of eight children in a family that always valued education. With no schools in his hometown that offered instruction beyond the tenth grade, Fegens and a younger sister moved to Cap Haitian to live with an older brother in a single rented room.

In order to send him and his four sisters to school, Pierre Charles’s family supplemented his father’s modest monthly income of $200 as a school administrator by renting out two rooms of their four-room house.

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It is my HELP scholarship that has made my education possible. My family would never have been able to finance my studies on their own and I am so grateful!— Pharana-Paula Auguste, dentistry, class of 2016